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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by monktastic1 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:43PM (#31854246)
FYI, spiel :)
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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by davidrupp on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:04PM (#31854475)
More info at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spiel . Pronounced as you (gp) spelled it phonetically because it's borrowed from German.
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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by gowld on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:53PM (#31855019)
It's taken from Yiddish, which took it from German.
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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by daveslash on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:31AM (#31863748)
From Yiddish? I didn't know that. Interesting and Thank You.

A few years ago, I used the word "Schmuck", and someone asked me if I was Jewish (I'm not). I didn't realize that "Schmuck" was also a Yiddish word until then. I looked it up, and I didn't realize that some Yiddish speaking people consider it to be obscene profanity! So now I use a little more sparingly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmuck_(pejorative)

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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by detritus on Thursday June 23, 2022 @05:36PM (#31855449)
Personally I prefer 'schpiel' :)
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Re:As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick by daveslash on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:02PM (#31854450)
Thank you.
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